Japanese Lit Quotes

#1. There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

Koushun Takami

#2. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.

Felicia Day

#3. He had people to love, who, best of all, loved him, too. He didn't feel it made sense to waste the energy on relationships that would only pull him under some emotional waterfall in which he'd never catch his breath.

Scott Turow

#4. Every love song I write is for Linda.

Paul McCartney

#5. Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.

Yukio Mishima

#6. I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Lorne Michaels

#7. Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

#8. This world-
To what may I liken it?
To autumn fields
lit dimly in the dusk
by lightning flashes.

Yu Minamoto

#9. Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.

Soseki Natsume

#10. Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi